Mac restrictions - Jamf School

[meldistrict12]

Hi guys,

 

I've been asked to setup 20 new Macs with Jamf, both of which I have never looked at until 2 weeks ago! Complete beginner when it comes to Mac's, so apologies for what may seem like daft questions!

 

AD accounts can log on etc, they can access their home areas on the Windows network.

 

At the moment, I can save on the desktop with my test account and I noticed GarageBand creates it's own folder locally to save to as well, rather than saving it to the home area.

 

Can I restrict access to saving locally on the macs and redirect anything that needs saving to their network areas?

 

Thanks in advance :-)

[paulkerton]

But what do you mean you're a footballer? Why aren't you good at water polo? It's all sport isn't it?

 

Amazing how we're expected to jack of all trades it.

 

The thing with Macs and MDMs is I find you can only do 80% of what you want to do. Pretty sure using MDM to enforce file saving locations is in the 20%.

[joewb]

some data can be made to save remotely, but the apps generally will not like it. We support a lot of schools and generally will redirect Desktop/Documents to the server and leave the rest locally, advising users to save everything to the server share that gets mounted at log in. Anything in Downloads/Pictures etc generally are not critical and if lost can be used to teach the users about saving to the right location.

[Brimstone]

1. Jamf School only provides VERY basic functionality for management of macOS, if you want to start using log in script, printer scripts you should be using Jamf Pro

 

2. macOS is solely designed for working locally and applications like FCP, Logic, iMovie, GarageBand etc will give you problems all the time if you ignore this and think you can use a network account to save to.

 

3. Use One Drive, Google Drive or mount a share and get students to save work to these at the end of a session, you can always back up the Macs FOC using Time Machine in case of disaster.